MAPS 32

Wybo Dekker: MAPS 2005.1 (English/Dutch); MAPS 32, 2005, 1-148; maps.pdf (4617kb); keywords:
NTG, MAPS; abstract:
NTG's magazine
Wybo Dekker: Redactioneel (Dutch); MAPS 32, 2005, 1-2; 01.pdf (139kb)
Piet van Oostrum: Een uittreksel uit de recente bijdragen in het CTAN archief (Dutch); MAPS 32, 2005, 3-5; 02.pdf (178kb); keywords:
classes, CTAN, packages, LaTeX, TeX; abstract:
Dit artikel beschrijft een aantal recente bijdragen uit het CTAN archief (en mogelijk andere bronnen op het Internet). De selectie is gebaseerd op wat ik zelf interessant vind en wat ik denk dat voor veel anderen interessant is. Het is dus een persoonlijke keuze. Het heeft niet de bedoeling om een volledig overzicht te geven. De uitgebreidere bijdragen zijn ook geen handleidingen. Beschouw het maar als een soort menukaart die de bedoeling heeft om de lezer lekker te maken.
Reinhard Zierke, Graham Williams, Joachim Schrod, Rainer Schöpf, Jim Hefferon, Robin Fairbairns: CTAN plans (English); MAPS 32, 2005, 6-8; 03.pdf (169kb); abstract:
The readers of Tugboat likely know the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network as a great pile of TeX stuff. That is, it is full of TeX materials, and it is great, but it is also something of a pile — a bit of a mess. We will sketch some plans for improving CTAN. As part of that, we will outline its architecture, history, and some present issues.
Taco Hoekwater, MetaPost Team: Metapost Developments — Spring 2005 (English); MAPS 32, 2005, 9-13; 04.pdf (155kb); keywords:
MetaPost, development, sarovar, bugs, extensions; abstract:
The MetaPost development team is pleased to announce version~0.9 of MetaPost. This article documents the changes since the previous version, and provides a roadmap for future development.
Adam Lindsay: Font Variants — A new ConTeXt feature for organising rich fonts (English); MAPS 32, 2005, 14-15; 05.pdf (321kb); abstract:
Font Variants are a new (meta-)feature in ConTeXt, offering the opportunity of easier access to advanced or unusual font features, without the hassle of using full typescript switches. This article briefly runs through the basic theory and practice of so—called font variants, and gives a few strategies for adapting it for your own uses.
Adam Lindsay: Euler in Use — ConTeXt support for the Euler math font, with examples (English); MAPS 32, 2005, 16-25; 06.pdf (467kb); keywords:
ConTeXt, fonts, Euler, math; abstract:
The Euler math font was designed by Hermann Zapf. ConTeXt support was limited until now. We show how to use the Eulervm LaTeX package in combination with some new math definitions and typescripts to give a more informal look to your equations.
Taco Hoekwater: Lettrines for ConTeXt (English); MAPS 32, 2005, 26-28; 07.pdf (167kb); keywords:
lettrines, module, initials, dropped capitals, ConTeXt; abstract:
The ConTeXt module lettri is port of the LaTeX package lettrine by Daniel Flipo that provides a way to typeset dropped capitals at the beginning of paragraphs.
Steve Peter: TeX and Linguistics (English); MAPS 32, 2005, 29-34; 08.pdf (420kb); keywords:
pscyr, omega, makor, ledmac, latexsym, fontenc, ednotes, edmac, devnag, colortab, bigfoot, babel, psgreek, pstricks, syntax, xetex, grammar, tipa, philology, phonology, lemmata, linguistics, semantics, cyrillic, teubner, unicode, arabic, armenian, chinese, devanagari, greek, hebrew, japanese, korean, russian, sanskrit; abstract:
TeX has long been associated with mathematics and ``hard'' sciences such as physics. But even during the early days of TeX, linguists were attracted to the system, and today a growing number of them are turning to TeX (LaTeX, ConTeXt). Aside from the general advantages of TeX for producing academic papers, it offers linguists largely intuitive means for dealing with often complex notational issues. In this paper, an abbreviated version of my Practical TeX 2004 talk, I show some notational issues and their solutions in TeX.
Taco Hoekwater: Controlling Acrobat Reader under X11 (English); MAPS 32, 2005, 35; 09.pdf (116kb); keywords:
pdfopen, scripting, X window system, acrobat reader, pdf; abstract:
The command-line programs pdfopen and pdfclose allow you to control the X Window System version of Adobe Acrobat Reader from the command line or from within a script.
Oscar Boot, Frans Absil: Met XML van database naar LaTeX — Het automatisch publiceren van database informatie in LaTeX documenten (Dutch); MAPS 32, 2005, 36-43; 10.pdf (302kb); keywords:
conversie, transformatie, XML, XSLT, XPath, Saxon, database, Access, publiceren; abstract:
In dit artikel wordt de geautomatiseerde aanmaak van het programmaboek voor de Bacheloropleiding Technische Wetenschappen bij de Hogere Defensie Opleidingen (HDO) toegelicht. Een belangrijk aspect hierbij vormt de omzetting van een Microsoft Access database naar LaTeX tabellen en bijlages in de uiteindelijke documentatie: XML bestanden worden als tussenstap gehanteerd.
Hendri Hondorp: Bundeling van conferentieverslagen (Dutch); MAPS 32, 2005, 44-49; 11.pdf (186kb); keywords:
fancyhdr, hyperref, pdflatex, pdfpages, proceedings, conferentieverslag; abstract:
In dit artikel wordt beschreven hoe Proceedings voor een Workshop of Conferentie gemaakt kunnen worden met behulp van pdflatex en de packages pdfpages, fancyhdr en hyperref
Frans Goddijn, Hendri Adriaens: ... three, two, one ... — a quest for the number of numbers (English); MAPS 32, 2005, 50-51; 12.pdf (154kb); keywords:
enumerate, numbered items, lists, counting backwards, etaremune; abstract:
This article briefly describes the seemingly trivial task of numbering items in a list with decreasing numbers, starting with the number equal to the amount of items in the list.
Karel Wesseling: Compiling METAPOST under ConTeXt (English); MAPS 32, 2005, 52-55; 13.pdf (123kb); abstract:
To teach yourself MetaPost, the book ``Learning MetaPost by Doing'' by André Heck is probably unsurpassed. However, the examples therein are processed on Unix using LaTeX. ConTeXt users have a bit of detective work to do before they can have successful compilations. If you are new to ConTeXt, the lines below may help save your a few hours of experimenting. These instructions were extracted from the MetaFun manual by Hans Hagen (from chapters 1, 2 and 3), and from a small macro that he once gave me that makes it possible to use the graph package by John Hobby.
André Heck: Learning METAPOST by doing (English); MAPS 32, 2005, 56-112; 14.pdf (808kb); keywords:
metapost, tutorial; abstract:
This course is only meant as a short, hands-on introduction to METAPOST for newcomers who want to produce rather simple graphics. The main objective is to get students started with METAPOST on a UNIX platform.
André Heck: Learning METAPOST by doing (answers) (English); MAPS 32, 2005, 113-117; 15.pdf (114kb); keywords:
metapost, tutorial; abstract:
This course is only meant as a short, hands-on introduction to METAPOST for newcomers who want to produce rather simple graphics. The main objective is to get students started with METAPOST on a UNIX platform.
Janusz Nowacki: Antykwa Torunska — ver 2.03 (English); MAPS 32, 2005, 118-132; 16.pdf (1585kb); keywords:
Antykwa Torunska, documentation, Zygfryd Gardzielewski, fonts; abstract:
Ernst van der Storm: Variabele faxdocumenten aanmaken in LaTeX (Dutch); MAPS 32, 2005, 133-137; 17.pdf (266kb); keywords:
faxen, macro's, Latex2RTF, Latex; abstract:
Beschreven wordt hoe LaTeX gebruikt wordt als schakel tussen een bestaande bedrijfsapplicatie en een faxserver; data worden automatisch geëxporteerd naar een LaTeX-document.
Ernst van der Storm: Stroomdiagrammen maken met flow (Dutch); MAPS 32, 2005, 138-140; 18.pdf (216kb); keywords:
softwaredocumentatie, stroomdiagram, write18, flow, Latex; abstract:
Flow is een handig programma om stroomdiagrammen te maken; via \write18 kan het vanuit een LaTeX-document worden aangeroepen zodat eventuele wijzigingen vanzelf tevoorschijn komen.
Taco Hoekwater: Verslag EuroTeX 2005 (Dutch); MAPS 32, 2005, 141-148; 19.pdf (412kb); keywords:
tug, verslag, conferentie, eurotex 2005; abstract:
Een verslag van de 16de jaarlijkse EuroTeX conferentie, gehouden in Pont-à-Mousson van 7 tot 11 maart 2005.